Urban Population / Iceland
Iceland Urban Population
Iceland urban population data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 94.18%.
COUNTRY: Iceland
UNIT: percent of GDP
SOURCE: World Bank / public data sources
UPDATED: 2026-06-29 05:07:34
GM ECONOMY RATING
Iceland · Economic Stability Rating
Composite rating based on inflation, growth, debt, unemployment and current account.
BB
59 / 100
Moderate stability
Fiscal stability
9.0 / 25
Macroeconomic stability
14.0 / 20
External stability
2.0 / 15
Financial robustness
9.0 / 15
Structural stability
14.0 / 15
Future capacity
9.0 / 10
Demographic capacity
4.5 / 5
Method: GM Economy multi-pillar stability model with structural and financial robustness adjustment. Coverage: 100% of weighted inputs available.
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Iceland · urban population data as percent of GDP.
Latest
94.18%
Previous
94.15%
Range avg.
94.00%
Rank
8
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CountryIceland
IndicatorUrban Population
94.18%2024 · Rank 8
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Prices & Inflation3
Growth & Output9
Public Finance8
Labor Market6
External Sector5
Monetary & Financial7
Population & Society7
Energy & Environment2
Interpretation
Iceland recorded 94.18% for Urban Population in 2024, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2023, the indicator increased by 0.03 percentage points, from 94.15% to 94.18%.
The latest observation is above the average of the last 10 available observations (94.00%).
Across the five latest available observations (2020–2024), the pattern is broadly stable.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 93.73% in 2015 and the high was 94.21% in 2021.
Comparison
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